VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][quote=Ronyk]Congrats on all of your recent wins VexRoth! I'm also seeing a definite improvement on your ability to self-analyze games! Here's one I grabbed at random from page 127: [quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/f4504f86f8e363a7ee8b566e89f2461b.jpg width=700] [br] And now I know first hand why [[Vladimir]] into [[Gangplank]] is a hard matchup. He can simply poke you and then heal up any minion aggro and you can't really burst him as long as he has his pool and isn't dumb enough to unpool when you have him in a barrel chain.[/quote] Now you're talking about the macro game- map movements, [b]why[/b] things went wrong instead of just [b]what[/b] went wrong. You're also providing splendid advice for those reading (taking objectives together, sunk cost fallacy, anticipating ambushes, recognizing when grievous wounds are important, etc). Keep up the good work! I love reading about your games during my day. Are you watching your replays to try to improve? It seems like you are. Just wondering.[/quote] Thanks Ronyk! I am happy about getting some wins under my belt on my main account. I was in a bit of a lull in my confidence, so I played some ranked on my secondary account to hone cycling. I didn't win everyone of them, but it showed me that it was a solid way of making sure my farm stayed up so I could remain relevant no matter what else was going on in the game. At the moment I am not watching my replays. On weeknights I can generally only get three games in. Weekends I can often get more and I could devote myself to watching some replays so I'll have to think about that. Right now my main focus is simply cycling my camps and looking at the mini-map and formulating a plan based on that. E.g. On blue side, their jungler ganks Bot I b-line it to their raptors and then their Krugs while keeping an eye on their Top and Mid laner to see if they move from lane. If the Top laners are trading I then gank Top for whatever I can get out of it. Base and buy. Then Krugs > Raptors > Wolves > Gromp and boom two camps up on the enemy jungler. Since I know where I have to be I'm not playing around my laners as much. I get involved when I think it would benefit our team rather than running around trying things at random. So hmmm, I have eaten all the camps on my side of the map and I'm near Top Invade? Are my laners in lane and pushing? Gank? Any nearby laners trading? Back? Item break point? Rift Herald? Have a pink ward? Drake? Have a pink ward? I still need to know match-ups better so I can switch sides of the map depending on how certain match-ups go. Like I know the jungler can have a big hand in deciding the [[Riven]] vs [[Fiora]] match-up as if equal in skill whoever gets the first kill owns the lane from then on barring major screw-ups. Though at Silver/Gold you can't always count on your Riven or Fiora running with their lead. Also need to spend more mental effort on tracking the enemy jungler. But I have more mental space due to cycling camps.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/e1eb36b32e62908da8941ff51a16827d.jpg width=900] [br] I can't seem to get any jungle champ besides Skarner to work consistently so... Plan was to camp Mid and Top, but had to deviate from my plan after [[Lulu]]'s third death because [[Talon]] kept threatening to roam down and I couldn't have him getting fed after [[Diana]] and I did a good job of keeping him down in the early game. Since Ezreal wasn't the one dying I could make a case for helping a lane that was struggling somewhat. I also picked up a good amount of farm cleaning up the aftermath of skirmishes, which offset some of the jungle camps I wasn't getting to do. It got a bit dicey toward the later stages of the game as [[Swain]] was starting to get huge. We had [[Ezreal]] buy an [[Executioner's Calling]] and chain CCd [[Swain]] to focus him down early in fights so that got that threat out of the way and from that we were able to punch them in the mouth. Should have probably gone tankier in this game, but I got pretty fed early so I was able to buy my [[Trinity Force]] outright. I felt the lack of tank stats in some of those later fights when [[Vayne]] was able to get fire on me from safety. Though with her true damage, more tank might not have helped in those instances.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth]Dodged one game because we had [[Zoe]] into [[Zed]] which I believe is heavily Zed favored and the other team got [[Skarner]] so I wasn't liking the odds. Next game. [img=https://i.gyazo.com/0bb4b82ba683d04d24afb6a09f620196.jpg width=700] [br] Bot lane got massacred and none of the other lanes got fed enough to compensate. I think Zilean was literally dying to one Q and one auto from [[Ezreal]]. I went a little too ham trying to kill [[Ezreal]] a couple of times.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth]Probably will not be playing ranked for a while. Post patch my ping went from a fairly steady 20-23 to 80 with occasional spikes well above that. Supposedly Charter has communicated that it is a problem on Riot's end, but vee shall see.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/07b31860b66e16d36d1a0512f63181d1.jpg width=900] [br] Ping is back down to 20 though yesterday evening I noticed some ping spikes while playing. So far I haven't had them this evening. Good team. I died too may times, I believe mostly trying to deal with the [[Renekton]]. That croc hurts. We were getting something out of my deaths so I suppose there is that.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/75375f89c792b734cd29d0044348cb7f.jpg width=900] [br] Bot lane was having some troubles. I helped [[Ekko]] kill [[Kassadin]] a time or two. He helped Bot lane quite a few times though he died once when he forgot to ult. [[Urgot]] was also roaming but that left [[Gangplank]] free to knock down the turrets in Top lane. However that caused him to overextend a couple of times which we punished. [[Kai'sa]] hurt more than I expected. I had a blooper moment when I [[Flash]]ed and tried to [[Impale]] [[Gangplank]] thinking his [[Remove Scurvy]] was down. Team had a blooper moment when were doing the Infernal drake and they all turned around and tried to kill [[Braum]] and ended up chasing him to the Baron side of the river. [[Tristana]] started tagging me while I was continuing trying to finish off the drake and since I didn't have any backup I had to back off. Kai'sa and Tristana got a free Infernal drake off of that. Team?[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/7557791402bb702e543ca715103cc7c2.jpg width=900] [br] [[Trundle]] for melting [[Ornn]] and using [[Pillar of Ice]] to interrupt [[Swain]] from getting to my team. Took one fight with too much gold in my inventory. IIRC we got and objective out of it, but still.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/f14e9ee7a4a0d4da651b28f7f3adf022.jpg width=700] [br] [[Vladimir]] was not useful and I made a mistake trying to get vision on Baron when [[Tahm Kench]] wasn't around to pull my bacon out of the fire. I got low enough from their poked to get taken out by [[Veigar]] and then in the ensuing fight Veigar got a beautiful three man [[Event Horizon]]. He didn't stun everyone, but catching three in that circle let their team dive on top of them and dish out enough damage that everyone was was seriously injured. It was late enough in the game that it was enough for them to finish without Baron. Sad day.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/460ab8f7426551a3ccd99c35c0c9aa94.jpg width=700] [br] Type out where the enemy jungler is. Your laners don't understand jungle timings or pings. Don't get desperate and make stupid plays like taking a blast cone into the Dragon pit when your team isn't near enough to assist you Don't expect winning match-ups to win. Especially if the enemy jungler spends time helping their laner out and they are not bright and don't ward for themselves. Don't expect your laners to know how to turret dive properly. They just know "I've got him kinda low." Okay, how about shove the wave under the turret instead of typing at me? Laners, please educate yourselves on what makes a gank or a tower crash dive work. Junglers farm because it is free gold and XP. Ganking is higher variance and if your jungler is not ganking then they probably don't see an opportunity. And it may just be that they don't see the opportunity you are creating for them. Ganks: -Don't call for a gank when you have no health and no mana. Leave your turret. It sucks if it goes down but it sucks worse if you die and it goes down. And even worse if you get your junlger or another laner killed in the process of trying to assist you and you lose the tower. -Do setup the minion wave to push towards your tower -Do let your jungler know if a laner or the enemy jungler used [[Flash]], [[Ghost]], or their major mobility spell is on cooldown. -Do let your junlger know if the enemy laner used thier ultimate -Do take the initiative if you have point and click CC Tower Crash Dives: -Do shove your minion wave into the enemy turret and wait for the minions to start taking turret aggro before damaging the enemy laner -Do check to see where the enemy laners are -Do check to see where enemy jungler is -Do check to see if your ability to dodge tower aggro on cooldown? -Do go first if you have point and click CC Something like. Top no F no ult, crashing wave, come ez kill[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/0316d2697d7a6939793d4ebae100e858.jpg width=700] [br] Not a night for the leagues. Got off to a good start handing three kills to my laners including a tower dive to kill [[Yorick]]. Didn't matter. Yorick just started killing [[Gangplank]] at will. Mid was doing fine until [[Fizz]] hit 6th level then she spent more time in egg form than as a bird since I kept coming over and scaring Fizz off and then [[Sejuani]] would come behind me and team up with Fizz to kill [[Anivia]] while her passive was down. Poor [[Braum]] was a hook magnet. I guess it doesn't matter if they toned down [[Tristana]]'s range if she has a [[Blitzcrank]] that can just pool are poor sap into her clutches.[/quote]