Sirell's Ranked Journeys

[quote=sirell][img=http://i.gyazo.com/9401f5b2e984efc70bfee76290cc86e8.png] I keep forgetting to post these screenshots, because I just play so much ranked these days and my duo partners just press 'Play Again' right after we're done, so I just click 'accept' and forget about screenshots. [spoiler=Renekton Commentary]First time [[renekton]] in a VERY long while. Originally, I had intended to just spam [[rumble]] top lane, since no one ever bans him and he's a relatively solid pick in most cases. However, having gone 0-2 with him in ranked with poor stats, I realised I just wasn't ready with him. So when I was last pick and left to pick a top-laner, I picked out a top laner who didn't require any great skill to play - [[renekton]], who I did 50/50 with in Season 3. At the beginning of the game, I had a bit of lag, so [[skarner]] out-farmed me whilst I chilled for a bit, waiting for my connection to stabilise. Had my pre-made gank top quickly and we secured a kill on [[skarner]] and narrowly missed dying to a follow-up by [[kha'zix]] and [[lux]]. Got a second gank on [[skarner]] but we coordinated relatively poorly, so we ended up with both of us dying for [[skarner]] and [[lux]]. Third gank went off without a hitch and we killed him for the 3rd time. Then, for some reason all 5 of the enemy team decided to gank bot whilst me and my premade were top and mid lane respectively. We lost the ADC and I think Dragon, but they lost both mid towers and also the secondary top tower. They didn't even manage to take bot tower. After that, we never really went negative in a teamfight and always made catches, ultimately leading to a Baron followed by a strong push down mid and botlane, taking both inhibitors. By this point, I could tank their whole team from before and after the duration of my ultimate. They didn't stand a chance at this point.[/spoiler] [spoiler=Leona Commentary]18th game with [[leona]]. Pretty standard, really. This time, me and my duo ended up botlane. We owned the botlane so hard, but their jungle [[pantheon]] and [[shen]] kept following up that it was pretty difficult to completely crush across the map. Oh my days, that top-lane [[akali]]. Talks about how he won top lane all day despite the fact that all he got was CS and tower, but [[shen]] got kills and assists across the rest of the map (and didn't die once in the whole game), kept complaining about how shitty her team was, even though we literally won the game for her (literally all she did was KS half the time and then just CS the rest of the time). She even said that she wished she could drop back to Silver if this was what Gold had to offer. What utter trash. Our [[fizz]] was a nice fellow, though. Didn't know how to use his E properly, but otherwise a nice guy. Managed to steal a Baron with [[lich bane]]+W+Q like a real man - uh, fish. Relatively easy teamfighting, but my God, that [[shen]] was impossible to kill.[/spoiler] Getting decent gains and my MMR is only rocketing upwards, so it might be possible to skip a division, fingers crossed. Gold IV, 83 LP atm.[/quote]

[quote=sirell]Got Gold III while I was banned. Jungle [[wukong]] game. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/caf3fb5aeae8c1bd109e9102ee507fb5.png] I picked mid [[lulu]], and then some jackass who picked after me pretended not to speak English and went mid with [[yasuo]] without saying a single thing. Then in game he was like 'I no sprechen de English'. Except when he flames and complains. And threatens to go AFK when our jungler doesn't gank for him and he dies twice to ganks. Then he speaks PERFECT English. So we said, 'yeah, go AFK then.' At one point, I even said - "Hurry up and AFK already, I want to go mid.' Meanwhile, dominated my lane anyway. Our teamfight was just too strong, in the end. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/f32763a4aec7fba699862eda64f1ef39.png] I've been losing a few games recently. Maybe I'm hitting a wall, or maybe it's just not a good idea to play ranked so late into the night and for such a long time. One thing's for certain, though. I can't play toplane to save my life.[/quote]

[quote=sirell][img=http://i.gyazo.com/98178c35c28471f3451369c91d5168d8.png] First [[karma]] game ended in 16-17 minutes. Our mid-lane [[lee sin]] ended it so quickly and I crushed botlane so much that we had two inhibs by 13 minutes or so. Second game was so frustrating. Me and my pre-made tried to get the team to splitpush 3 times, but they'd just sit around and farm jungle instead of pushing/sieging and wait for my pre-made to get killed when he split-pushed. I earned more gold than the [[gragas]] mid. I'd forgotten what low Silver queues were like (result of duoing with a Silver V). [[leona]] game - dominated the whole time, nothing special. But 29 assists though, they just kept coming into our lane just to die. All the TF ults and that support [[diana]] tho.[/quote]

[quote=sirell][img=http://i.gyazo.com/6f795b2adbf3b7e2390f1f51bb3a40c1.png] [img=http://i.gyazo.com/328502c79fba7db405e36a25fca499a7.png] Ran some jungle [[karma]] games using Diamondprox runes. Lost two separate games after both those games with [[thresh]] and [[yasuo]], but got an overall increase of LP. IMO, it seems really strong. It brings a lot of utility and damage to the team. She suffers mana problems throughout the game if she doesn't build [[athene's unholy grail]], but I feel [[karma]] jungle has become stronger in lieu of the jungler changes in the last 3-4 patches. Great fun, too.[/quote]

[quote=EdisonKhoo][[karma]] Jungle OP :O[/quote]

[quote=1jamie50]That [[Karma]] jungle tho. I really got to try that at some point.[/quote]

[quote=sirell]It's fun. Even I underestimate her damage sometimes. Score a random kill out of nowhere and didn't even expect it. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/643d6b09ae43cd24a1796fcc60f2b558.png] Got into series for Gold II with trusty ol' [[leona]]. Currently 21/7 with her in ranked. I went without dying in the laning phase. Died once because my pre-made ADC baited me into a fight, but we got a triple kill out of it, so worth. Then I dived them under fountain turret and got executed so that I could buy my Tri-Force. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/6b189e3272f5b9daa42264696b36d89b.png] Edit: Got Gold II. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/6d5e10504c8ac316b120775135b299fc.png] Won my series in two straight games. Had a [[vi]] in my [[leona]] game that legit didn't know how to play and never used her ults, then proceeding to trash talk the team. I hate winning for those people. And tbh, I didn't really feel the nerfs on [[vi]]. She still feels broken to me.[/quote]

[quote=sirell]3am in the morning playing some normals with friends. The amount of butthurt in this is so strong, haha. Calling us 'tryhards' the whole game and saying 'we need 3 to kill 1 of them' when they did 3 TP-ganks and still fail to win teamfights, as well as us doing a 4 v 5 and Aced them for the win is just laughable. Didn't check their ranks, but clearly Bronze/pre-level 30s. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/1ea9286b7b005d895277266a53873cf1.png] [img=http://i.gyazo.com/9feac2983d4af03b4cee2e79efec7483.png] Rest of the chat continues in a similar vein thereafter.[/quote]

[quote=sirell]Just a quick update. Got Gold I with [[leona]]. Even with her slight nerfs, she's still quite domineering. [spoiler][img=http://i.gyazo.com/2eb4a1674e409e88547cedecbb596bfd.png][/spoiler] [img=http://i.gyazo.com/321c0f27bfe2a13c83bd4b8a6b9a32cd.png] [spoiler=Leona Stats][img=http://i.gyazo.com/cc39969382594189007e27ecfcf42396.png][/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=sirell]Biggest tilt in my whole LoL career. Dropped from Gold I to Gold III in two days. I really fucking hate [[feral flare]]. As if we didn't have enough junglers we wanted to ban. Really frustrated right now. [img=http://i.gyazo.com/7bc38ca5a345985c241b47ae5f49e6ca.png][/quote]