Twould be nice to have a game where every lane is not pushed to their turret the whole of laning phase. Makes gathering intel to formulate a plan tricky.
Apparently the new
Ivern thing is to take your opposite buff then run back to their version of the buff they just stole. Except when their laners collapse on you, you off course die, while in Ivern's case he gets to hop over the wall because no one kills that bleeping plant on their way through. Now granted it tends to seem to spawn late enough that your laner can't kill it without being late to lane. But I actually opt to kill it before doing my Red Buff if their jungler is the invading type.
Since
Warwick's ult is no longer point and click, Vi is the nearest jungler I can think of that has pretty much guaranteed lockdown to deal with highly mobile champions. And it came in handy and I pretty much ulted Katarina on cool down and every time she dived into a fight. That helped stop the bleeding in Mid lane. So Zed could get some farm. Really the cluster was that I ganked Bot lane and Zac showed up and we still killed Fiora and we would have gotten Zac but Katarina showed up and cleaned Riven and myself up. Then she went Bot lane and picked up a double kill there, so I though this might be all over to the point that I bought a Hexdrinker before finishing Enchantment: Warrior. After Riven got her kill on Fiora she pretty much had her way with Top lane so that meant some good pressure coming out of Top.That match-up is on my list to snowball for whichever one is on my team, hence my level 3 gank.
Good laners.
Fizz was murderizing Kennen and then rotating to help out other lanes. Nasus watched my Red Buff before minions spawned. He actually waved me off a couple of times when he didn't feel like he was in danger of dying but was a little on the low side for a gank. He also helped me out a little too much when we found Kindred invading my Krugs. After we pushed them off Renekton decided to join the fray. I kept scrapping with Kindred for the remaining Krugs and Nasus stayed too long trying to help, so unfortunately Nasus ended up going down over that, so not worth even though I actually ended up with most of the Krugs.I managed to eat all but one of Kindred's marks that popped up on the map, so that helped prevent her from getting big. It also made her pretty predictable as to where she was going to show up as she eventually turned up trying to hunt down all the marks I had already taken out.
Had good dragon control and got Rift Herald to boot. We were far enough up in kills and pressing in far enough that they decided to call it quits on this one.
Irritating game.
Sivir and Bard got way ahead. They had a interesting tactic of Bard dropping Redemption on Sivir any time she got low which usually let her keep pumping out damage until they started doing some weird ****, like going into the enemy jungle and getting killed. Nasus wasn't doing anything in Top lane. I guess Kennen who was going on-hit Kennen was eating his lunch and his turrets, so I pretty quickly didn't have access to half my jungle, with Kennen and Graves both frequently hanging out there. We stabilized the game around Mid game and then we just couldn't not sync up around team fights. Well 4v4s while Kennen freely pushed in our turrets in the outer lanes. We managed to get their Mid turrets and I guess the team got tired off dealing with the Kennen so we tried to base race Kennen who won because he didn't have to go through a turret and inhibitor like we did.I think the thing to do in a game like this would simply to be to ward up their jungle and do what we could to punch down the Mid and Bot lane turrets and control dragon. Or send someone else to try and deal with
Kennen because Nasus was not doing it. Not that he was dying a bunch, but simply was unable to pressure Kennen off the turrets. Need to check and see if he went Q or E max. Guessing Q, but could be wrong. Yep Q max, so no wave clear. And Shyvana is an oudated champ, eh. How about get with the times with respect to your build.
And we probably would have lost this one if
Rengar hadn't DCd. Had a pretty good early game, but it kind of went to **** when Malphite hit level 6. He just poked at Xerath and then ulted him every time it was up, so there was no pressure in Mid to speak of, though one blessing was that they took their sweet time getting the Mid outer turret.Trying out
Jax who I've jungled with a fair amount on my smurf account. Feeling like I am wanting someone with some CC.Fortunately our
Caitlyn and Lulu had a very good early game so that made finishing up, sans the champion that had a chance of insta gibbing Caitlyn out of the game, relatively easy. Just make sure Caitlyn doesn't die. Her mechanics were definitely better than the Silver Caits I'm used to.
Game felt clunky. We had it mostly in hand, but they had some decent scaling champions so I was concerened with it going much later in the game.
Yasuo was often off splitting Top lane a lot and trying to 1v3, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Could have been cleaner, but I'll take the V.
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Thanks! Would love to make Plat!