VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][img=http://gyazo.com/ba15e3ed12cb7d904265bd67493174c3.png width=900] [br] Runes: Hyb Pen, Health, 6 MR + 3 Mana Regen, 2 AP + 1 Arm Quint Masteries: 0-9-21 [u]Summary:[/u] Made [[Morgana]] and [[Ashe]] cry in lane though the kills didn’t really start rolling in until mid game. [u]Things I did well:[/u] Karma things. Even remembered to use [[Mantra]] to empower abilities other than [[Inner Flame]]. Decisiveness: Good though at one point I ran the opposite way as [[Jinx]] and she ended up getting killed. Trading in Lane: Good. Dark Angel tears are good. [u]Things I could do better:[/u] Last Hitting: Okay. Could have been better when I had opportunities.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=http://gyazo.com/0ebd31d9a730635b1e2d32e1a5ecae24.png width=900] [br] Runes: Atk Dmg, Arm, 6MR +3 Mana Regen, 3 Atk Spd Masteries: 21-9-0 [u]Summary:[/u] Didn’t have super high hopes for this one when our [[Shaco]] said he was going tanky. Opted for [[Tristana]] because I didn’t have a lot of faith in my team’s ability to peel given our comp. Check out that [[Lux]] build! To be fair, Lux and I worked well in lane together to poke the snot out of [[Vayne]] and a to a lesser degree [[Thresh]]. Vayne’s CS was atrocious as a result. After [[Nasus]] picked up a triple kill in Top lane with only a sliver of health remaining the opposing team called it quits. [u]Things I did well:[/u] Trading in Lane: Good. I balanced putting the hurt on [[Vayne]] with getting CS and came out ahead. [u]Things I could do better:[/u] Last Hitting: Okay. Missed a few that I shouldn’t have. Decisiveness: Don’t recall enough at this juncture to say reliably.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=http://gyazo.com/dacdf077a213098443c7abbfbb3c275a.png width=900] [br] Runes: Atk Spd, Scaling Health, Scaling CDR, 1 Scaling CDR + 2 CDR Quints Masteries: 4-26-0 [u]Summary:[/u] [[Darius]] and [[Heimerdinger]] put on dominant performances. Darius drew a lot of attention up to his lane taking pressure off the rest of the map. Have to doff my hat to [[Nami]] who when I pinged I was coming in for ganks, she did a lovely job of hitting [[Aqua Prison]] to time up someone long enough for us to get a kill. One of those fun games were things go smoothly and teammates are there to back each other up and take objectives.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=http://gyazo.com/69f79183affae140992e69455c035aa9.png width=900] [br] Runes: Hyd Pen, Health, MR, Arm Quints Masteries: 0-9-21 [u]Summary:[/u] Dysfunctional is the best I can do to describe our team. So their [[Leona]] didn’t show up to lane until way late. Things were looking pretty good at that point as we adroitly dodged a [[Lee Sin]] gank. Then it fell apart. [[Rammus]] went way to hard on not one but two ganks so their lane was back in the game despite having piss poor CS at that point. I knew it was GG when [[Irelia]] was Mid lane while [[Darius]] was pushing down the turrets in Top lane. [[Azir]] just kept running up Mid over and over and getting caught out each time. [[Sivir]] joined him on a couple of those expeditions. A couple of those were while I was in base dealing with super minions after Top inhib had fallen. I think I broke my ping button trying to get someone’s attention as [[Nami]]’s wave clear is nothing to write home about. We did actually come together in the end and had two or three good team fights, but the best we could make of that was their Mid base tower. Then we were back to defending our base since all our inhibitors were down. We had a brief lull when some of our inhibitors came back online and that was when [[Sivir]] took it upon herself to go facecheck Baron by herself. The End.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=http://gyazo.com/cf7411cc08a2f163c9795c71ac90dc68.png width=750] Runes: Atk Dmg, Armor, 6 MR + 3 Mana Regen, 3 Atk Spd Quints Masteries: 21-9-0 Fairly sedate considering the match-up. I think they were worried about [[Nautilus]] and of course [[Blitzcrank]] likely wasn't keen on getting a [[Rocket Grab]] on Nauty. They went in on us when we they hit 6th and Nautilus fed up and didn't really manage to get any lockdown on Miss Fortune when she ulted. Nautilus died. We buried him. Then he respawned. Creepy. ;) I got out of that one and came back to lane and scored a double kill. Their [[Rek'Sai]] was having a hard time and their [[Leblanc]] wasn't doing so hot against [[Fizz]]. Their [[Nasus]] was doing alright though. Because I figured I would need to kite either Nasus or Rek'Sai I opted to go for a [[Blade of the Ruined King]] first instead of IE. It proved to quite helpful in chunking those two in skirmishes and team fights. I didn't get focuses much, so I was able to consistently apply damage without interruption, meaning we came out ahead in every team fight. Glad that I wasn't the focus of attention because Nasus could knock off 80% of my health with one [[Siphoning Strike]]. Last Hitting was okay, but not great. You've got to be cognizant of the AoE damage of [[Tristana]]'s autoattacks otherwise you will get some minions so low that your creeps will take theirs out before you can auto them. Decisiveness was good. If find that is usually the case when I have decent amount of kills and relatively few deaths. Trading is lane: Okay. Miss Fortune could have been a lot more aggressive early when my range is more equal to hers. But that doesn't last very long, so eventually I could auto her with relative impunity.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=http://i.gyazo.com/ab8462f69dacc9096d23635d6fe42fe0.png width=900] [br] Runes: Hyd Pen, Health, MR, Arm Quints Masteries: 0-9-21 [u]Summary:[/u] [[Rengar]] was a beast that helped [[Ezreal]] and myself get rolling with some good early ganks. Kitty was also very appreciative of the several times I saved his bacon with a well timed [[Dark Binding]] when he bit off more than he could chew. [u]Things I did well:[/u] Decisiveness/Leadership: Good. I kept our team aware of dragon timers and steered them to taking objectives when we were starting to get scattered, which was causing us to lose some skirmishes. [u]Things I could do better:[/u] Last Hitting: Still not great at this with [[Morgana]] Trading in Lane: Okay, but could be better. I think I missed around the first 7 or so of my Dark Bindings. Fortunately Ezreal was on point with his [[Mystic Shot]]s so we had some push pack against [[Draven]] and [[Lux]]. Item Actives: I used the active on [[Frost Queen's Claim]] to good effect several times and also [[Zhonya's Hourglass]], but I didn’t remember to use [[Mikael's Crucible]], which I picked up to deal with [[Light Binding]]s from Lux. Still struggle a bit with three actives for four if you count [[Sightstone]] / [[Ruby Sightstone]]. [u]Miscellaneous[/u] Pleased with this game and my performance overall. I picked [[Morgana]] because I felt like we could use some more CC and it really did have an impact. Favorite moment was when Lux was standing in Mid Lane minding her own business and I [[Flash]]ed and nailed her with a [[Dark Binding]] allowing my team to quickly clean her up.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth]Updating my champion pool to reflect who I am currently playing/feel comfortable that I play the champion well enough to use them in ranked. I'm going to try to do some homework and nail down good matchups and tough matchups for each champion in my pool as that is an area of the game where I'm still weak. I primarily opt for Jungle or Support, but since it is solo queue I can end up at any of the various positions and actually seem to end up Jungle or Top more than I end up as Support. I feel like ADC is my weakest position, but then I'll have games where I go 16-4-12 or 20-2-9 and so I am not sure if that is a perception issue, match-up issue, or duo lane issue. I tend to get the least amount of reps Mid lane partially due I think to not calling it and one of my preferred positions being open. I'm fine with Mid lane, but do need to work on my roaming when I do pick up a lead, so I'm glad [[Kassadin]] is in a healthy enough place to put back in my line-up as I've had some success with roaming with him in the past. #1 thing I need to work on to get better is CSing. Needz the loots to give them the boots. #2 thing is decisiveness. #3 is trading in lane. So in my Ranked updates I am going to start rating myself for those things. 5-25-2015 Update: Added [[Zac]] to my list of jungler because I've been getting more reps in on him than [[Gragas]] or [[Sejuani]] as those two are almost always banned at my ELO. Pulled [[Jarvan IV]] for the moment because he just feels underwhelming if you don't build damage. I've seen some people building him a bit differently so I am going to have to look into that before bringing him back into my stable of go to junglers. Added [[Gnar]] and [[Garen]] to Top Lane as I find them both fun to play. My reps on them have been in normals thus far, but I feel reasonably comfortable on both and just need to figure what matchups to play them into and/or avoid. Addded [[Tristana]] as ADC because I can't really count on good peel in solo queue so escapability is important and with the attack speed steroid on her Q and a [[Blade of the Ruined King]] she can kite and cut through tanks pretty well. It is also kind of fun to drop a bomb on a low health minion and shoot it a couple of times before the other laners figure out what your are doing and take a heap of splash damage and jumping on people to finish them off of course. :-) [br] ------------ [br] [table border=1 width=900] [tr] [th]Role[/th] [th]Champion[/th] [/tr] [tr align=center] [td]Top[/td] [td][icon=Sion size=75][icon=Wukong size=75][icon=Gnar size=75][icon=Garen size=75][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Jungle[/td] [td][icon=Gragas size=75][icon=Sejuani size=75][icon=Shyvana size=75][icon=Zac size=75][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Middle[/td] [td][icon=Lissandra size=75][icon=Kassadin size=75][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Marksman[/td] [td][icon=Graves size=75][icon=Sivir size=75][icon=Corki size=75][icon=Tristana size=75][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Support[/td] [td][icon=Braum size=75][icon=Morgana size=75][icon=Nami size=75][icon=Karma size=75][/td] [/tr] [/table][/quote]

[quote=VexRoth]Not sure what exactly where the issue lies, but my ping has gone up, I'm experiencing more packet loss, and I've got disconnected from games twice (though only for short periods of time) in the last week or two. I have 100Mbps service and tend to hover around 64-70 ping most of the time with FPS at 60. I've turned my graphics down to low on all settings, which is a disappointment as I like many of the little touches they've added to Summoner's Rift. Anti-aliasing is off. Last night however my framerate still dropped to something abysmal during graphics intensive fights (like 4-20). This makes me a little hesitant to play ranked. It seems odd too in that we were told that the new SR should be less intensive on comps and I was able to play with high grahpics settings when the update to SR first came out. I don't know if it the issue is things they've added since the update or my own connection and/or computer. Anyway, I've been saying I'm going to put more emphasis on knowing my matchups so I'm going to start documenting that. For the moment this is just going to be a stream of consciousness type exercise base on my experience and I might try to make a pretty table later. [u]Top Lane[/u] [[Sion]] - [[Aatrox]] Heavily favors Aatrox, [[Maokai]] Even, [[Teemo]] Favors Teemo until you get [[Unstoppable Onslaught]] then you can kill him at will, [[Jayce]] would need to try this match-up after the nerfs [[Roar of the Slayer]]. I think it still favors you as you can just build armor and laugh at him. [[Mordekaiser]] favors Morde. [[Malphite]] favors Malphite. [[Gnar]] favors Gnar. [[Nasus]] farm fest, which is really bad for your team. You need jungler help to keep him down. [[Wukong]] - [[Renekton]] Heavily favors Ren, [[Darius]] Heavily favors Darius [[Gnar]] - [[Jax]] Favors Gnar [[Garen]] - TBFIL [u]Jungle[/u] Don't have a good feel for who my junglers are better against. I mostly pick [[Shyvana]] if I'm against a Lee Sin as I can run [[Exhaust]] and murder him if he tries any invade shenanigans. Though [[Gragas]] also holds up pretty well against him and can get away if it starts to go badly. [[Zac]] I often pick when [[Gragas]] and [[Sejuani]] and banned. [[Sejuani]] I pick because of the beastly ultimate to lock down whole chunks of enemy teams. [u]Mid Lane[/u] [[Lissandra]] - [[Katarina]] Favors Liss but Kat is a better roamer on average [[Kassadin]] - [[Katarina]] Favors Kass but Kat is a better roamer on average, [[Brand]] favors Kass and Kass is a better roamer I'm going to add in [[Lux]] or [[Syndra]] as a counter to [[Heimerdinger]]. That guy has cropped up in a couple of my games and he is a pain in the ass to deal with if you don't have some way to get his turrets or him away from his turrets. [[Lee Sin]] works pretty well against him as a jungler as you can kick him away from his turrets. So that is another option, though my Lee play leaves quite a lot to be desired. [u]Bot Lane - Marksman[/u] [[Sivir]] - [[Spell Shield]] is very helpful an neutralizing anyone with a hook. F you [[Blitzcrank]]. [[Quinn]] - Does well against [[Vayne]] and [[Kalista]] in my experience (maybe I should add to my roster. [[Jinx]] craps on Quinn. I basically default to [[Tristana]] at this point because I usually don't trust my team to peel. [u]Bot Lane - Support[/u] [[Braum]] - Does reasonably well against [[Thresh]] and [[Blitzcrank]] as long as you go full tank to deal with the beating after getting hooked and then go ham on the ADC since the grab put you in position to do so. [[Morgana]] - Ofter also choose her into [[Thresh]] and [[Blitzcrank]] because [[Black Shield]]. [[Nami]] - does pretty well against [[Janna]]. If my team doesn't have any disengage, [[Nami]] is often a default choice for me. [[Karma]] - For wrecking [[Morgana]]s. So yeah, definitely have room to improve in this area of my League knowledge.[/quote]

[quote=Jovy]Maybe you should try to pick up Janna or Thresh. I'm not sure how hard Janna could carry in silver, but Thresh certainly can.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][quote=MissMaw]Maybe you should try to pick up Janna or Thresh. I'm not sure how hard Janna could carry in silver, but Thresh certainly can.[/quote] I do play [[Thresh]] but I still struggle with backwards and sideways [[Flay]] attempts, which has made me hesitate about taking him into ranked. Any advice on that?[/quote]