The Fool's Adventures In Scrubdom

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-04at105808PM_zps141c3f10.png] The first game that wasn't a grind or a complete stomp. Well played by both teams. Bans were [[Blitzcrank]], [[Kassadin]], [[Hecarim]], [[Vayne]], [[Shen]], and [[Lee Sin]]. Ultimately, this game was all about the fact that [[Teemo]] just stops [[Tryndamere]] dead in his tracks. We started out the game fairly well; [[Lissadra]] was getting kicked around by [[Zed]] in the middle lane, and [[Tryndamere]] was pushing hard so I couldn't really gank for him up top, but I camped bottom heavily and got [[Miss Fortune]] to 5/0/1 by the fifteen minute mark. I myself was 1/1/5, having died during one gank due to [[Amumu]] having showed up unexpectedly (though we killed him as well). They took an early dragon and tower lead, but we clawed it back. The problem, though, was that [[Tryndamere]] wanted to splitpush, but he couldn't do it against [[Teemo]]. He was starting to die a lot, and both [[Teemo]] and [[Zed]] were getting pretty fed off of their lane opponents. [[Miss Fortune]] and I carried teamfights hard, because [[Cataclysm]] + [[Bullet Time]] is OP, but since they could splitpush on demand and we had no real answer, they had a distinct advantage. We still managed to keep the game very even up until the very end. We got the first Baron, but the second one was rough, with both teams dancing around for a long time, looking for an opening. I finally found an engage, but we lost the ensuing fight because [[Lissandra]] accidentally ulted [[Nami]] (and after [[Tidal Wave]] had already been dropped to boot). A silly mistake on her part, but it happens. We got aced as a result, though, and lost. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - I could probably have found a better engage at the end there. Even though it was [[Lissandra]]'s missed ultimate that sealed the deal, the engage itself was very shaky, and if I had found a better opening, we might have won.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at123358PM_zpsda637965.png] Bans were [[Zac]], [[Evelynn]], [[Thresh]], [[Amumu]], [[Blitzcrank]], and [[Shen]]. The game started out rather slow. Since we were purple side, I went up to gank [[Renekton]] immediately after taking red buff, but I think I walked into minion vision range by accident while moving into the lane bushes, because he played very safe as soon as I arrived. Meanwhile, [[Hecarim]] got First Blood in the bottom lane, so we were a bit behind, but [[Corki]] answered by killing [[Sona]]. [[Kassadin]] started the game with two wards, and [[Hecarim]] was hovering around mid lane playing bodyguard duty, so I couldn't really make anything happen there. The first real successful gank of the game for me came when I headed down to the bottom lane. [[Miss Fortune]] and [[Sona]] had [[Leona]] and [[Corki]] pinned to our tower, so I just E-Q'd over the wall and handed [[Corki]] a double. [[Hecarim]] attempted to come in and countergank, but was more than a little late to the party, so that was a free kill for me, and when [[Kassadin]] showed up immediately afterwards, I snatched another. We grabbed a free dragon in the bargain. That was basically it for their team. I just roamed the map murdering people and counterganked both [[Hecarim]] and their constantly-roaming [[Kassadin]] over and over for free kills. They surrendered at twenty minutes. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - My only death this game happened just as they surrendered. I was holding the middle tower against the entire enemy team, stepped a little too far forward, and got chain-CC'd by every ultimate they had. It was still really dumb of them, since [[Katarina]] just got a free quadra immediately after due to them burning absolutely everything, but I didn't need to die there.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at15525PM_zpsfbe0afe8.png] Bans were [[Amumu]], [[Thresh]], [[Hecarim]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Malphite]], and [[Shen]]. The enemy jungler chose [[Shaco]]. He chose a champion which is a walking insult to the other jungler's intelligence. So I made his loved ones suffer. Seriously, though, [[Shaco]] just did nothing this game. We were blue side, and I was going to start at my red buff [i]anyway[/i]. I told [[Jax]] to guard blue and the rest of the team to help me at red. Lo and behold, [[Shaco]] does exactly what I was expecting him to do, and waltzes in for a one-man invade attempt to stack up his [[Jack In The Box]]es in my wraith bush. We catch him, he burns [[Ignite]] on me for no reason, and runs off since [[Lux]] missed her [[Light Binding]]. I happily resume taking my red buff, then simply E-Q combo past the wraith bush, since, for some reason, he thought I was dumb enough to just walk back in there after I knew he was waiting. He didn't even slow me down. I just grabbed my blue, went top, handed [[Jax]] First Blood against [[Renekton]], and then spent the rest of the game wandering around murdering everyone. We took dragons, towers, kills, [[Shaco]]'s buffs, everything. They simply didn't have a jungler, while I was murdering the crap out of everyone on their team constantly. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - Honestly, I could probably have stolen both of [[Shaco]]'s buffs at the beginning, because I knew he was making the stupidest opening play in the history of ever. Even after killing [[Renekton]], I still probably had time to steal the red, but I didn't. I'm not sure it's an actual mistake, but it's something to consider.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at33043PM_zps76f6251a.png] Welp. Bans were [[Amumu]], [[Thresh]], [[Hecarim]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Kassadin]], and [[Malphite]]. Our first pick was [[Graves]], and was duo'd with [[Alistar]]. As you can see, [[Alistar]] really should not be playing ranked. Not only did he rush [[Warmog's Armor]] as support [[Alistar]], he never bought a single ward* (no one but me did, actually) and very obviously didn't actually know how to play [[Alistar]]. He couldn't grasp the idea of [[Headbutt]]/[[Pulverize]]. There were multiple times when he [[Headbutt]]ed the enemy [[Jax]] away [i]by lunging forward into the entire enemy team, then not using [[Pulverize]], killing himself[/i]. As if that wasn't enough, they outright demanded to be given the top lane and for [[Shen]] to go bot against one of the hardest-zoning and best-pushing AD carries. So [[Shen]] was pretty much screwed from the start. [[Jax]] and I both spent most of the game trying to help out our 1v2 lanes. The difference between us was that their duolane was competent and could push, while ours was entirely incompetent and could not. So we had two losing lanes, one lane that was strictly even, and no jungler. That's basically it. If that wasn't enough to clinch it, though, [[Graves]] didn't seem to grasp the concepts of: a) not wandering off alone into the fog of war, b) letting [[Shen]] do the splitpushing since he has [[Stand United]] and we sort of need the AD carry to hold towers, and c) not flaming the hell out of the [[Shen]] he screwed over. We just got dove because the enemy team knew our AD carry wasn't there and our support was a non-factor. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - Honestly, I should have just put my foot down about the "shen go bot" thing. *: The one in his inventory is the only one, and I just now noticed it. He must have bought it after we all died during the final teamfight.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at41642PM_zps36f3aa13.png] Bans were [[Kassadin]], [[Fizz]], [[Thresh]], [[Amumu]], [[Blitzcrank]], and [[Shen]]. A fairly simple game. [[Twisted Fate]] was apparently flaming his team for the entire game, since he ended up going bot with [[Ashe]] when he wanted to go mid. I forced [[Garen]]'s [[Flash]] up top, [[Ezreal]] got First Blood down bot, and [[Lissandra]] and [[Brand]] just butted heads all game. There wasn't much I could do in mid, since [[Lissandra]] had even started the game with two wards and never left base without another two (and since she was keeping the lane shoved to [[Brand]]'s tower pretty much constantly, she could back without fear of losing too much CS, and thus always had wards up). Bot lane was pretty much handling itself. But I was easily able to get [[Irelia]] snowballing hard with three successful ganks to her lane, plus one failed countergank by [[Vi]] that only succeeded in handing [[Irelia]] another kill. That was when I died, though; [[Garen]] hit level 6 mid-fight and ulted me unexpectedly. With [[Irelia]] snowballing hard, I headed down to bot, since [[Twisted Fate]] had stopped buying wards and [[Vi]] had apparently decided that she was going to focus on camping that lane. I counterganked her a few times, [[Irelia]] came down to countergank a few more times since she got her tower so early, and we just took free dragons all day. They surrendered after [[Twisted Fate]] ragequit. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - That skirmish where I died could probably have been executed better. - I wasted a lot of time early on trying to find an opening to gank [[Lissandra]]. She's a difficult champion to gank at the best of times. When she continued to play extremely safely the entire time, I should have just given up and moved on to a lane that I might have had some chance of success with.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at75908PM_zpsdb22bbe7.png] Bans were [[Shen]], [[Thresh]], [[Amumu]], [[Caitlyn]], [[Fizz]], and [[Blitzcrank]]. I had a bad feeling about this game from the get-go. I know [[Skarner]] is a hyper-snowballing jungler, and he's one that I've considered playing a lot. I knew that, if he got an early lead, things would be tough. He got an early lead. Surprise. As you can probably guess by the death totals, [[Renekton]] and I were the only members of the team who consistently played safe ([[Renekton]] mostly because all he did this game was splitpush). [[Orianna]] never bought any wards and started with a [[Doran's Ring]] (which she apparently sold at some point), so, unsurprisingly, [[Skarner]] just ate her over and over. Meanwhile, [[Ezreal]] and [[Nami]] needed no help to beat my bot lane. I had several very good ganks on every lane and several counterganks against [[Skarner]] that kept this game from being a complete stomp. But, in the end, they had a 9/2 [[Lux]] while we had a 3/7 [[Orianna]] and [[Skarner]] simply snowballs harder than [[Jarvan IV]]. We could probably still have won this game, but [[Renekton]] decided to dive into the enemy team while [[Orianna]] wasn't there to donate [[Command: Shockwave]] to the cause. We got aced and they won immediately afterward. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - During one gank on the bottom lane, when I was counterganking [[Skarner]], [[Lux]] and [[Orianna]] showed up to join the party as well. I ended up tower-diving [[Lux]] and dying. [[Vayne]] got the kill, but I died in the process. That was unnecessary. - At one point, I facechecked a bush that happened to contain a maddened [[Skarner]], and could have survived if I had [[Flash]]ed immediately or gone a different direction than the one I chose. I decided to be an idiot and save [[Flash]] until the last possible minute, which killed me.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer]Whee, multiple games! [img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at91909PM_zpsee67687e.png] Holy shit this game went bad in about every possible way. Not much to say other than that I made far too many mistakes to list and that I heavily regret pretty much everything that happened, up to and including choosing [[Skarner]]; I saw the opportunity with the immobile enemy team, but it didn't really work out. I outright fed this game, and deserved the loss entirely. I played like a Bronze V scrub rather than a Silver IV scrub. [img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at95759PM_zps8649299e.png] This one was much better all around. Whenever I end a game with no deaths and more kill involvement than almost anyone else on the team, I know I've been doing my job. [img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-06at104521PM_zpsf8b49965.png] I'm very upset that this didn't end up a perfect game, but I made one mistake during this one that cost me that death. I made about the shittiest engagement of all time while [[Annie]] had a stun [[Tibbers]] at the ready. We were just lucky that we didn't lose an inhibitor off of that. Other than that, though, flawless game. Took every single dragon as soon as it spawned, got good ganks in on every lane, initiated well every time except that one, and eventually won the game with a perfect five-man [[Glacial Prison]] while the enemy was trying desperation Baron. We only lost one lane's towers, and that was after that shitty engage; they got all our midlane towers, but we stopped them from taking the inhibitor.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-07at12650PM_zps0731f7c8.png] Jesus. This is the first time I have ever raged in after-game chat, but goddamn did these guys ever earn it. Bans were [[Malphite]], [[Singed]], [[Amumu]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Shen]], and [[Ahri]]. This game started out boring as hell for me. Every lane was taking care of itself, except top, which I had to hang around a lot. It wasn't losing, but the enemy [[Dr. Mundo]] was constantly sitting in the bush, so I just sat there and scared him off. Neither Mundo nor myself accomplished anything during this part. We had a huge lead during the early to mid game. Pretty much every kill we got was during the laning phase. We had all three inhibitors down, since they couldn't save [i]any[/i] lane and were really bad about grouping, so we were preparing to push for the win. I had basically no kill involvement because, again, every lane was taking care of itself, but I had helped to take several dragons. Then, just as the first real teamfight was going to break out, [[Graves]] told [[Caitlyn]] to stop feeding. That ended the game right there. Both [[Caitlyn]] and [[Graves]] had the emotional maturity of five-year olds. [[Caitlyn]] went AFK in base, then started wandering our jungle and farming creep camps while the enemy team rallied, constantly making comments in /all like "I am the reason you will win", "4v5 kill Graves and it's gg", and so on. And [[Graves]] just kept antagonizing her. That was it. We couldn't win. We had a 4v5 against a team with a [[Nasus]] and a [[Dr. Mundo]]. We took multiple Barons, took their inhibitors over and over, but we couldn't win because [[Caitlyn]] decided to be an idiot and throw.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-07at21320PM_zps510535f9.png] Bans were [[Kassadin]], [[Vayne]], [[Hecarim]], [[Zed]], [[Shen]], and [[Thresh]]. [[Darius]] fed, [[Twisted Fate]] fed, and [[Blitzcrank]] fed. [[Ashe]] and I were both doing very well - 2/0/3 and 3/0/3 during the initial stages, respectively - but when top and mid have lost their towers by the ten minute mark, then [[Blitzcrank]] dies and loses not only the bot tower but the dragon, there isn't much you can do. They had a better late-game team than we did, and our team just sucked too hard to win the early game. [[Blitzcrank]] started whining about how I was "too passive" and "didn't tank" towards the end. I find that kind of player hilarious - the ones who run headfirst into the enemy team, then complain about "wow no focus". But yeah. No kills past the opening stages, since they had damage and tankiness and we had neither. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - Only one of my deaths could really have been avoided (the other was a last-ditch fight to try and save the nexus). I screwed up an E-Q during one skirmish and ended up too close to [[Jax]].[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-07at30404PM_zps80a7817e.png] R.I.P. perfect game ;-;7 Bans were [[Blitzcrank]], [[Aatrox]], [[Kassadin]], [[Thresh]], [[Evelynn]], and [[Amumu]]. I just stomped everyone. About all there is to it. I scored an easy First Blood when counterganking [[Elise]] up top, picked up an early [[Boots of Mobility]] and [[The Brutalizer]], and became an unstoppable killing machine. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - We gave up a dragon to a [[Piltover Peacemaker]] because my [[Smite]] was on cooldown. Should have known better. EDIT: Oh yeah. My one death was literally at the same moment the nexus exploded. They burned everything on me trying to get me to stop hitting it, and the very last [[Caitlyn]] autoattack was [i]just barely[/i] enough to finish the job. But I had already killed the nexus.[/quote]