Neo's ELO Tour!

[quote=utopus]Welcome to my Ranked Thread :) I'll be using this for documenting my progress in soloqueue. I firmly believe that the 2nd best thing aside from practicing is analyzing your own play, and i'll be doing that here. If you're looking to improve, it might do you good to follow along with some of my analyses: You might just get something out of them xD If you have any suggestions / recommendations, please let me know! I'm very open to both criticism and suggestions to make my thread more enjoyable to follow I'll try my best to include every game, but I'm awfully forgetful, so I'm not holding myself to any particularly high standard when it comes to the consistency of posting games; Additionally, if a game is a stomp and there isn't much to learn from it, I might choose not to include the game. The goal for this season is to reach top 5,000 in NA, while also working on diversifying my specialty roles. Some things that I'll be looking to improve are: My consistency in Top lane performance, improving my CS in mid lane, learning how/when to perfectly roam in mid lane, being more committal and aggressive in mid lane, improving my gank spacing (+rep if you get the pun) when jungling, and playing less recklessly when ADCing. I don't know exactly what I need to do to improve my support play, so I won't comment on that just yet. Lastly, I'll be looking to diversity my champion pool for all of these roles. [table width=900 bgcolor=transparent] [tr] [th width=180 padding=10][/th] [th width=180 padding=10][/th] [th width=180 padding=10][center][color=#ffffff][size=4]Roster[/size][/color][/center][/th] [th width=180 padding=10][/th] [th width=180 padding=10][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td padding=10][center][b][color=#77C7E6]Top[/color][/b][/center][/td] [td padding=10][center][b][color=#E6AF77]Jungle[/color][/b][/center][/td] [td padding=10][center][b][color=#E67777]Mid[/color][/b][/center][/td] [td padding=10][center][b][color=#E6E277]ADC[/color][/b][/center][/td] [td padding=10][center][b][color=#AEE677]Support[/color][/b][/center][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td padding=5][center] [icon=gnar size=100 border="4px dashed #77C7E6"] [icon=Lissandra size=100 border="4px dashed #77C7E6"] [img=http://i.imgur.com/RfB2ERl.jpg width=100 border="4px dashed #77C7E6"][/center][/td] [td padding=5][center] [icon=kindred size=100 border="4px dashed #E6AF77"] [icon=nunu size=100 border="4px dashed #E6AF77"] [icon=gragas size=100 border="4px dashed #E6AF77"][/center][/td] [td padding=5][center] [icon=lulu size=100 border="4px dashed #E67777"] [icon=leblanc size=100 border="4px dashed #E67777"] [img=http://i.imgur.com/RfB2ERl.jpg width=100 border="4px dashed #E67777"][/center][/td] [td padding=5][center] [icon=Caitlyn size=100 border="4px dashed #E6E277"] [icon=ezreal size=100 border="4px dashed #E6E277"] [icon=vayne size=100 border="4px dashed #E6E277"][/center][/td] [td padding=5][center] [icon=soraka size=100 border="4px dashed #AEE677"] [icon=janna size=100 border="4px dashed #AEE677"] [icon=morgana size=100 border="4px dashed #AEE677"][/center][/td] [/tr] [/table] Starting Rank After Placements: [img=http://i.imgur.com/ljkWF41.png width=800] Goal: Diamond 2[/quote]

[quote=utopus]Anyways, Here's my first game posted below. [spoiler=credits] This formatting was ripped from Wayne3099's Ranked thread. I'd like to give him a big thankyou for letting me use his BBcoding! [/spoiler] ----------- [center][size=5]Game 1[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/FCbWXnh.jpg] -------- [spoiler=LSI code!] C0E4D6F7064D60021D10FCD38351B40F [/spoiler] -------- We had a vlad that stole our shyvana's top pick without telling us. He didn't play too hot :< I think at one point he said he was high LOL Anyways, Shyvana was forced into jungle, and she did very well carrying us. Graves really respected the varus + nami matchup, so my aggressive playstyle didn't really sync well with his propensity to farm and take free AAs. I asked him to all-in when we hit 6, and we actually did pretty well, acing them at one point. I was quite happy with my janna play there, as I was able to save shyvana and help her secure 2 more kills, so there's that. We didn't have enough map pressure to really make use of shyvana's good plays. There was one really embarassing point where I tried to flash ulti jayce , but I forgot that my [[monsoon]] was on cooldown from an earlier skirmish, so I ended up just [[flash]]ing to my death LOL. An unfortunate, but nearly unavoidable loss. I'll see if I can have more games come your way [rule] [center][size=5]Game 2[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/Yp7V6FC.jpg] ------- [spoiler=LSI Code!] 177647ECADD98C5518368B054932F1C6 [/spoiler] ------- A little disheartening of a game, to be honest. My sivir told me that she would play aggressively, and then took free autos from janna for all of level 1. I got vayne down to 30% by the time we hit level 2, but janna got sivir down to 30% as well, which is kinda sad tbh. Anyways, they went aggressive on sivir, and instead of fighting a duel that I think we would've won, she tried to run away, and ended up burning flash and dying. The sivir said that she was frustrated that I was autoing minions, which was pretty funny lol. Volibear tried earnestly to gank for us, but it just didn't end up working out; Janna had a lot of stuff warded, and we didn't have a good way of clearing the wards. [[volibear]] got a successful gank off in our lane, but a good TP from my opponents top laner without follow up from our top laner forced a 2v3 that we lost. [[sivir]] started harassing the volibear, and the poor guy ended up ragequitting. I don't think my support style is conducive with the current ELO i'm playing in, so I think i'll just play carry roles until I can duo queue with an ADC that plays just as aggressively as me.[/quote]

[quote=TheRealCefor]Looks like you can use some back-up, maybe a mid-laner perhaps[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 3[/center][/size] [img=http://i.imgur.com/BfPydYP.jpg] ----------- [spoiler=LSI codes!] DB1203D89CFC13EA8721B94990FA2009 [/spoiler] ----------- Total stomp; I must say that playing carry roles is working out a lot better than when I was playing support roles, even though I main support. My [[morgana]] was quite aggressive, right from level 1. With her autoattacking lucian and sona so far out, and some nice bindings, she managed to chunk both of thel to below 40% by the time we hit level 2. A nice LoS binding allowed us to get a kill on sona. Left at like 300 HP, I outplayed a gank from vi, that ended up getting me a 2nd kill around the 5' mark. Morg caught lucian and sona out two more times later, and i ended up getting [[pickaxe]] + [[B. F. sword]] by the 7:00 mark, which pretty much meant the game was over.[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 4[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/GMhA0vK.png] ------- [spoiler=LSI code!] B9D1A2D11DC0F82CE71F0179164114AD [/spoiler] ------- Pretty yucky game. I destroyed annie early. Roamed top, got fb from jax. Forced annie's flash first my level 6 burst, forced Vi's flash with my level 6 burst. Things were looking pretty good. Eventually, they 4 pushed mid, and after that, I lost all my map presence. After they 4 pushed mid and took my tower, I vi, nautilus, and annie camped my lane to keep me down and out of the game. By this time, any time I could get in range to combo annie, she could one combo me with RQW. I tried to hard to get top lane rolling; I roamed top twice, when in reality, I should've stayed mid and kept annie down, or even ganked bot, since bot was getting destroyed[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]I think you kinda skipped the intro + "this-is-what-I'll-be-playing" part of this thread. Good luck though! :)[/quote]

[quote=utopus]Hmm. Can I copy your general intro? Your BBCoding is wonderful[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]Sure :)[/quote]

[quote=Maintained]Good luck with your climb ^_^[/quote]

[quote=Thalia Kael][quote=TheRealCefor]Looks like you can use some back-up, maybe a mid-laner perhaps[/quote] Or a jungler\adc? We should duo more some time, I'm available tomorrow[/quote]