Neo's ELO Tour!

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 5[/size][/center][/size] [img=http://i.imgur.com/G9WaFRc.png] -------------- [spoiler=LSI codes!] 022C92159204435329F8021531DF022C [/spoiler] -------------- A tad disappointing on my part. I think if I had played my caitlyn better, there would've been like a 20% chance that I had carried. [[morgana]] went really aggressive on [[soraka]] at level 1, and we ended up chunking her really low. I could've killed her with a flash + auto, but I didn't because I thought vayne would [[heal]]..... I tabbed 5 seconds later to realize that she had cleanse and that I oculd've gotten fb. This got REALLY bad for us, because [[soraka]] just drank her 4 potions, and got to full HP again. When we caught vayne with a [[dark binding]], we committed to a fight that we would've won, but maokai skipped going to his blue buff, and an early level 2 gank attempt from them left my morgana giving fb to vayne, with maokai and vayne living thanks to soraka's healing... Thanks to soraka's great healing, vayne was able to zone me from CS and get a significant CS advantage over me. When we got to dragon, [[cho'gath]] mispositioned and got caught. [[gnar]] tried too hard to keep him alive, which got [[katarina]] fed, and my opponents their 2nd dragon. Jax and Maokai were very unkillable, and I was really the only person who was responsible for killing them. I played too recklessly, and didn't respect katarina's damage though - I thought that I would be able to survive most burst from her, since [[cho'gath]] had an instant speed silence, and we had a fast casting gnar stun, but I was wrong - I died many times by putting faith in my teammates, which is my fault. I should've played more selfishly.[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 6[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/ZyvVpxf.png] ---------- [spoiler=LSI codes!] None - sorry [/spoiler] ---------- A devastating loss, but an OK loss. I was [b]very[/b] happy with my thresh play. Our jinx was really shitty. like, started [[long sword]] + 3x[[health potion]] bad. She got hit by a binding and chunked down to 50% hp, and didn't use her health potions, either. When we beat them to level 2, she pinged lucian. I read [[relentless pursuit]] and landed the [[death sentence]] on lucian, followed by the [[flay]]. Jinx got lucian down to like 20% and then flashed away and tried to run. She died; None of her potions were used. We played a really safe lane when she returned, and we let leblanc carry us since she and irelia were destroying their solo lanes and lee was doing well too. We got the first two dragons, and when we were rotating to mid lane after the 2nd dragon, I caught out a carry, but a well timed and positioned counterengage staged by the enemy team ended up leaving me dead, leblanc low, and lee dead as well. It was at this moment I knew we lost. [[jinx]] was split pushing bot, [[irelia]] was split pushing top. We pinged both of them to recall, and only irelia did. We had no waveclear; No way to defend turrets without jinx rockets. They took 3 towers and an inhib at 16 minutes, whereas we got 1 outer turret, 1 inner turret, and an inhib turret. Leblanc tilted, and rightfully so - she had no map vision and she couldn't catch anyone out. Despite my successful [[death sentence]]s on [[jayce]] which effectively left the fight a 5v4, [[jinx]] couldn't handle [[vi]], and nobody could handle [[lucian]].[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 7[/center][/size] [img=http://oi60.tinypic.com/1zlf9qr.jpg] ---------- [spoiler=LSI codes!] None - sorry [/spoiler] ---------- Excellent work by the entire team. A good [[dark binding]] at level 1 chunked the enemy jinx, and kept her so low for the rest of the early game, that another landed [[dark binding]] at level 4 got our ashe a kill. Thalia got mid so fed though, that we would've won even if we lost our lane though. One thing I need to learn is how to deal with [[fiddlesticks]]. His ult gives me so much trouble when I play morgana.[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 8 [/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/U6qeEku.png] --------- [spoiler=LSI codes] None - sorry [/spoiler] --------- Apologies for not recording these games. I had accidentally closed LSI and forgot to reopen it when my ranked games started today. This was a mostly well played game on my part. I queued up with an old friend/duo queue partner. Some points to start off with: [list] [*] [[mordekaiser]] top with [[ignite]] doesn't work out too well - What happens in BR stays in BR LOL [*] [[morgana]] mid belongs in Season 2 ;P [/list] This was a [b]rough[/b] lane for us. I knew it would be coming in. I knew that we could cheese the bot lane if I ran [[ignite]], but if I ran [[ignite]], I wouldn't have [[exhaust]] for fiddle's [[crowstorm]]. It was a kind of pick-your-poison kind of ordeal. My ADC got poked out of lane, and had to recall and buy some of the most fucked up itemization i've ever seen - this guy was like genja 2.0. His first recall consisted of: 2x[[health potion]], 2x[[doran's blade]], 1x[[ruby crystal]], 2x[[long sword]]. You have to ask yourself sometimes... WHY?!? I gave him a lot of shit about it (in a teasing way), and even tried to make a buzzfeed article about it: 19 reasons why you shouldn't duo queue with tien xD [[corki]] got caught out near river, and after I told him to just [[valkyrie]] over the dragon wall, he decided not to. He got pincered by [[caitlyn]],[[brand]], and [[katarina]] and it got to the point where his valkyrie over the wall wouldn't save him. I distracted those 3 long enough for corki to escape. That's how much faith I put into my duo partner: If it was soloqueue, I would've let my ADC die and /laugh ed on his corpse [[wukong]] was playing out of his mind. When we realized that [[brand]] didn't rush [[sightstone]] on his first recall, he camped bot really hard and got fed. We were ahead for quite a while, but [[fiddlesticks]] kept on getitng these immaculate ultis down. Katarina would jump in and get resets. The real crappy thing was that I could only [[exhaust]] one of them :< There were few fights where mordekaiser did something useful, like kill someone... [[morgana]] didn't really contribute much ever. The fiddlesticks ultis kept them in the game until the 35 minute mark or so. At that point, [[morgana]] made a REALLY stupid decision to try and 1 person flank her opponents. She got caught, and [[mordekaiser]] died from a fiddlestick's [[flash]] + [[crowstorm]]. Caitlyn [[flash]] autoed [[wukong]] while she had red buff, and he ended up getting permaslowed and killed as well. At that point, they just 5 pushed mid and ended right there. I'm very happy with my play though. I [[solar flare]]d the right people most of the time, and [[shield of daybreak]]ed [[katarina]]'s [[death lotus]] quite often: She wouldn't be channeling the ulti for more than like .33 seconds. I was on [b]point![/b] There were two things that I didn't do well. The first mistake I made was mechanical: I didn't buy [[mikael's crucible]] sooner, and I wasn't fast enough at cleansing my ADC. The second mistake I made was about game knowledge: I was too stingy with my wards. When I siege a turret against [[fiddlesticks]], I need to ward all around the tower, and discuss an escape route with my team.[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 9[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/5Ge5bef.png] ------------ [spoiler=LSI codes!] none - sorry [/spoiler] ------------ I was really happy with this game. At first, I was a little weary of playing [[morgana]] as her [[black shield]] bug in this patch was, what I thought, a knife in the chest - I had promised myself that I wouldn't allow myself to play her until that bug got patched. Even with the bug, she's still broken AF. I finally badgered my ADC into playing Morpheus AKA Lebron AKA Deshawn AKA Tyrone. Laning phase went pretty standard: [[nami]] and [[corki]] bullied and poked us out of lane, but because [[nami]] failed to rush [[sightstone]], she got a lot of gank pressure, and I think had to waste a LOT of money on pinks (i think she ended up buying like 4 pink wards throughout the course of the laning phase.) Eventually, [[corki]] positioned poorly, and ended up getting hit by a [[dark binding]] while autoing our tower. Lucian immediately channeled [[the culling]], and I flash ultied the [[nami]] to get lucian a double kill - i think. After that, bot was definitively won for us. I roamed mid, and ganked [[annie]] several times. She would just burst me down, but lux would in turn kill her, and pressure her tower to the point that she destroyed it by the second dragon mark or something ridiculous. This was my first time trying [[righteous glory]] on [[morgana]], and I can say that it is REALLY strong on her. I think [[zhonya's hourglass]] -> [[rod of ages]] will get replaced with [[zhonya's hourglass]] -> [[righteous glory]]. When I theorycrafted, I expected that to be the case, but I didn't want to say anything until I tried it myself in a semi-competitive game. It worked extraordinarily well in catching people, as well as keeping people in [[soul shackles]] radius.[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 10[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/Q9DSvVs.jpg] ------------ [spoiler=LSI codes!] None, unfortunately. This would've been one great game to review as well! [/spoiler] ------------ I'd like to apologize for not having LSI replays, or official screenies of my gameplay. I had a lag spike in this game and decided to close chrome to ensure that my ping stabilizes. Unfortunately, that meant that I lost my screenshots that I took, but didn't yet post. This game was probably the best game i've played so far. I honestly think that [[nami]] is now a Tier 1 Support instead of a high Tier 2 support. Laning phase went OK; We were mostly even throughout the laning phase. The vayne was REALLY good at dodging skillshots and [[buckshot]]s, so our lane should've won harder than it actually did, but that was at the credit to vayne: She played excellently. We beat her to the level 6 Powerspike, and we traded heavily, forcing vayne out of lane. My duo partner and I pushed to their tower, and we joked that if vayne showed up, he would tower dive her and kill her. Lo and behold, 3 seconds later, she shows up at her tower, with 15% health. My partner [[quickdraw]]s in, and AA + [[collateral damage]]s her. She dodges the ult with a [[tumble]]. I couldn't take tower aggro fast enough, so my ADC ended up dying under turret. About 2 minutes later, our [[gragas]] lane ganks through brush that was warded. He dies, but thankfully, I managed to get a kill on vayne. 2 Minutes later, [[gragas]] lane ganks again. Our [[graves]] was sitting in a bush trying to duel the [[vayne]], but he didn't realize that this brush was warded (seeing a common theme here?) He died, and about 10 seconds later, [[gragas]], [[annie]] and I show up for a 2v3. [[shyvana]] lands a solid ulti, and I almost landed an [[aqua prison]] on [[vayne]], but an [[explosive cask]] knocked her away. A skirmish occurred, and an immaculately timed [[eye of the storm]] kept shyvana alive enough to get a kill, followed by another, followed by another. 2 Minutes later, we're having a fight near dragon. Fizz lands a good [[chum the waters]], and ends up in us losing a 4-3, but getting dragon. Recalls happen, and 2 minutes later, [[graves]] and the rest of the team are sieging mid, and taking advantage of our opponents poor ability to waveclear. They force a fight, and [[graves]] comes back into the game with a triple kill. What made this game really amazing though was the next fight that was to ensue near dragon. Our [[graves]] was positioned poorly near mid lane. Their team collapsed on him, and while he survived, [[gragas]] had to pop his [[righteous glory]] and his [[explosive cask]] to save the graves. I had to pop my [[righteous glory]] as well. Graves was effectively zone out for the rest of the fight. Their team had all 5 ultimates, we were without gragas' ultimate, and without our ADC. Our team regroups near the dragon side death bush, with my opponents team flanking from both their jungle entrance, and the south side mid lane brush. Fizz connects his [[chum the waters]] on me, and the fight begins. Fizz nearly one combos me, but my [[mikael's crucible]] was enough burst healing to keep me alive. Meanwhile, [[darius]] and [[gragas]] are just south of the death brush, tanking 5 players' worth of damage. [[shyvana]] ultis to try and execute me, and jump on annie, but a perfectly timed [[apprehend]] stopped the dragon mid dash. This [[apprehend]] hooked 4 people. Here is what follows: [list] [*] A 4 man [[aqua prison]], perfectly followed up with: [*] A 4 man [[summon: tibbers]] + [[incinerate]], perfectly followed up with: [*] A 4 man [[tidal wave]], perfectly followed up with: [*] A 4 man [[body slam]]. [/list] Despite being down so much, we were able to convert that into a 3-3 team fight, and I was [b]happy[/b] with that, since it should've been a 5-0: An Ace for them. I was so happy with that play; I felt like I had really 'learned' [[nami]] at that moment right there. Whenever fizz would go in, I would perfectly [[aqua prison]] his [[urchin strike]] or [[zhonya's hourglass]] so that he didn't even have time to [[playful / trickster]] away. That, and peeling for the [[graves]] was enough to win us the game. END PLACEMENT: Plat 4 NOT BAD[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 12[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/v87QnLY.jpg width=800] ------------ [spoiler=OPgg replay] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8suY_AVjxdmWFFUeEJlejFuVzg/view?usp=sharing [/spoiler] ------------ Boy was this a fun game. While I usually do quite well on nunu, I've found historically that my win rate isn't usually representative of my score. This game stood as an exception to that though, as a clean, win. Shaco tried to cheese me at my red buff, but I had finished my buff well before he even got close enough to be able to steal it, or cheese me - thanks to a ward i placed near my red side brush near dragon. Morgana and lucian cheesed our bot lane for first blood which kinda sucked. Nunu can't really do a whole lot to help gank, unless he gets a lantern right next to them, with an [[absolute zero]]. After finishing my blue, I ganked mid and forced a flash out of syndra. Did wolves, ganked her again. Without my knowing, my gank was actually a countergank, as shaco had [[deceive]]d in seconds before I ganked through the opposite side lane brush. Lux got a 4:00 double buffs from shaco. I think took scuttle, and then dragon. I farmed for a bit, then ganked syndra again around 8:00. She flashed again. Walked bot, got a double kill thanks to a good [[death sentence]] -> [[absolute zero]]. After that point, the game was basically over. The only lane that had difficulty had just got back into the game. Through vision control and continual catches on our opponents through [[righteous glory]] (which, by the way, had basically 5% downtime for my game LOL) we were able to secure a win[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 16[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/88kSr8K.jpg width=800] ------------ [spoiler=LSI codes!] DA1527764BAE7FC3450AA59E0E8FB1DE [/spoiler] ------------ A pretty good game on my part. [[master yi]] called for an invade. Without being particularly successful, our team was finishing our recalls in the purple side banana brush when we saw a [[vladimir]] about to facecheck the brush. I pinged him, and point blank [[dark binding]]ed him, getting our Yi first blood. Ezreal and I got into lane and we poked down ashe pretty hard. It became obvious that ashe couldn't dodge bindings, so alistar had to body block them, and max his heal so that she could stay in lane because she was getting poked hard from ezreal anyways. We won lane really hard. We leashed for yi's red buff - smiteless. Yi counterjungled the vi and ended up 4 buffing her. At 8:00, ashe had recalled, so i took that moment to ward river and help yi take vi's second blue. Ezreal had the bot lane pushing, so even if ashe came to help vi, she would lose out on a LOT of minions. Vladimir had recalled while we were taking vi's blue, so orianna was free to roam and help us out. We caught vi out at her blue buff witha point blank [[dark binding]]. She survived yi's initial burst, so i blocked her [[vault breaker]] escape, and that gave yi enough time to finish her off. After we killed vi, yi rotated bot to try and kill alistar/ashe. While we did technically pincer alistar, he's not REALLY the most desirable target to collapse on. I didn't think that yi would [[alpha strike]] in on him, so i didn't [[black shield]] him. He got rekt and almost died, but that ended up working out for us. Since ezreal was 6, and their bot lane wasn't, we kinda just kept fighting, and powered through them. I snared [[ashe]], which ezreal and orianna chained into [[trueshot barrage]] and [[command: shockwave]] for the easy kill on ashe, followed by dragon. At 11:30, Ezreal and I were able to chase down the ashe and get a kill off her. Vi and alistar chased ezreal, and he had to burn flash to get away, because I mouse slipped and ended up [[black shield]]ing the wrong person. A good [[command: shockwave]] followed by a [[dark binding]] allowed us to take mid tower. After this point, the game was decidedly over. We sieged a second turret and fought under tower. I had exceptionally good tower aggro juggling with [[tormented soil]], and an above average [[soul shackles]], which isolated one champion from his tower.Yi, orianna and I 3-manned baron at 20:00, with only me getting executed.[/quote]

[quote=utopus][center][size=5]Game 17[/size][/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/YPmtQbt.jpg width=800] ------------ [spoiler=LSI codes!] 1DEB30EC12CAB35608C9DDB7D70BFBAD [/spoiler] ------------ Duo queued with goodplays; Game started off okay; We had a really weird invade path that actually worked out. We should've gotten first blood, but goodplays and I got too greedy and focused the wrong person. The CC'ed person ([[thresh]]) [[flash]]ed over a wall and that's all we ended up getting from out invade. An immaculate [[vault]] jump from quinn allowed her to escape with only a delayed recall - she didn't have to blow any summoner spells. [[morgana]] played REALLY aggressively in lane - more aggressively than I play, which is quite hard to do, because all my friends think that i'm recklessly overaggressive. I felt bad that I wasn't more aggressive, but even with me balancing my time between CS and harass, we were able to force the quinn super low. Their bot lane baited well, and facilitated a [[vi]] gank pretty well. With 3 of them low, my at 40%, and only our [[morgana]] low, goodplays made a great [[teleport]] gank. He got the vi, the quinn, and damaged the thresh low enough so that I could last hit him. With shyvana having no [[ignite]], or items, she couldn't really do a whole lot. Through a long trade, we whittled down [[shyvana]] and got a tower dive off on her. A good morg binding following an extended trade allowed me to get a kill on quinn in lane. With the numbers advantage and the minion wave pushing to tower, jarvan morg and I got dragon. We rotated mid and got mid turret, the next mid turret, and then bot. At 21:12 I blundered by escorting morg to deep ward our opponents red side jungle. She was warding too aggressively; Shyvana flanked from one direction; Right when I saw that flank, I should've left morgana to die; I needed to run towards my team or else I would die too. When she ultied me, I should've flashed over the mid lane wall instead of towards my support. The lack of flash meant that I was guaranteed to be safe, and I would minimize my risk of getting flanked. The most embarassing part of my play was my pathing blunder at 24:00. Aside from that though, I think I played a solid game, with few positioning blunders.[/quote]

[quote=Maintained]That cat is the only pussy you'll ever get ;^) Also I had a lot of fun in that ranked game surprisingly. No stress whatsoever, we should do it more often.[/quote]