Viola's Ranked Journey

[quote=Viola Orpheus][quote=tehAsian] As [[riven]] vs [[vladimir]], you should be super aggressive. Every time he goes in to last hit a minion or harass you, [[valor]] up and Q AA Q AA Q AA him. Honestly, [[lux]] shouldn't have been a problem for you that game, because as [[riven]] all you really have to do is abuse your mobility and dodge her skillshots, then 1 combo her. Also, what elo is that? What's up with jungle TF and all the weird builds? o.o [/quote] I see. I remember being aggressive, but maybe not enough like you mentioned. And that was my intention ( The [[Valor]] - > [[Broken Wings]] AA Combo), but there were quite a number of minions everytime I did it so I also took more damage than I should have, and I was also trying to balance out going for last hits and harassing him which I did poorly. [[Lux]] was already suuuuper ahead though by the time I could leave my lane without leaving it open to [[Vladimir]] pushing up and destroying the tower. Any hit of hers by this point dropped most of us, so I couldn't exactly do what I wanted. And [[Draven]] was also quite a pain, so I couldn't tell if I should have focused him down or [[Lux]]. I honestly don't even know myself. Probably 1100-ish ELO. And I'm pretty sure that jungle TF only came because him and his teammates didn't want to jungle. But they were forced into choosing one of them to do it since our team had a jungler.[/quote]

[quote=Viola Orpheus]Took a bit of a break from Ranked, at least until I got my computer fixed. And it's OK now, and ran into OTG when I popped online. Played one Normal match for a warmup, and despite that going disastrous, we kept a positive attitude and went Ranked. Annnndddd this happened... [spoiler=Orianna; 4/3/3][img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/OriRanked_zps2aad651d.png][/spoiler] I was doing fine against [[Master Yi]], but bot lane hardly had any wards at all and [[Diana]] was a derp. A disastrous fight early near our blue kinda sealed the deal. One mistake and AP Yi just steamrolled right after. Managed to kinda redeem myself by grabbing a double kill at top when [[Nocturne]] and [[Renekton]] got greedy against [[Cho'Gath]], and saving [[Diana]] with epic ball movement not too long after when we took the tower down and Noc got back. But it's AP Yi. He just doesn't give a damn. Oh, and [[Caitlyn]] was AFK for the first 15-20 minutes. I won't deny, I made some mistakes, but [[Tristana]] and [[Diana]] were just flat-out bad. Tris always kept separating herself to grab jungle camps when we were getting pushed, and [[Diana]] has [[Will of the Ancients]]. I couldn't even call either one out, since there was little to no downtime. And that downtime was used by them to badmouth everyone else. Tris calling me and Cho out for feeding Yi, when we both had only died once each to him and she had died at least three times already beforehand. While Diana was calling everyone out for being bad. Well, here's to hoping that this trend of getting derpy teammates end soon.[/quote]

[quote=Pheyniex]those lame cho playrs.... now seriously, [[Diana]] jungle works well, still?[/quote]

[quote=FalseoGod][quote=Pheyniex] now seriously, [[Diana]] jungle works well, still? [/quote] Not hard to pull off, like before. Her jungle clear is pretty much the same, her pre-6 ganks only work vs overextenders or overcommitters who don't know you're coming, post-6 can be good. Of course you need to decide on item path fast, squishy or utility. I usually go for early "utility" (HP Blessing, then Abyssal, unless ultrafedmode: on), her bases are good and you're bringing CC and a skillshot-enabler to the lane - edit - Jesus fucking Christ on a stick son, that Diana's build. People and their addiction to spellvamp. - edit 2.0 - Viola, if you are good, soloq is all about grinding. I'm serious. I've had terrible losing streaks due to all kinds of shit (some even my own fault), but I just hung in there and claimed my goals. Be patient.[/quote]

[quote=Viola Orpheus][quote=Pheyniex] those lame cho playrs.... [/quote] I don't exactly remember why OTG went AD bruiser Cho. But I think it was somewhere around the lines of keeping up with [[Renekton]]'s damage. [quote=FalseoGod] Viola, if you are good, soloq is all about grinding. I'm serious. I've had terrible losing streaks due to all kinds of shit (some even my own fault), but I just hung in there and claimed my goals. Be patient. [/quote] I don't know if I can call myself "good", since I don't wanna look arrogant and I tend to make mistakes a lot as well. But I think I can hold my own fine. Probably better than the average player though.[/quote]

[quote=Viola Orpheus]Welp, time to get this back up and running. Hopefully it won't die out so soon like last time. [center][u][b]GAME #8[/b][/u] [img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/rankedinalongtime_zps5d2e5592.png][/center] Simply put, this was a stomp. I honestly don't know what else to say. Took like 2 of [[Caitlyn]]'s kills, but thankfully she wasn't the raging kind. lol. What could I have done better? Avoid KSing so much as the support, lol. --------- [center][u][b]GAME #9[/b][/u] [img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/mehranked_zps40d42925.png][/center] Yeah, I screwed up big time here. I tried to wait for [[Jarvan IV]] at red, but I completely forgot that jungle spawn timers were changed, and so I made a mistake and gave up first blood. I'll shoulder the blame on this, because I completely screwed up here. My bad decision makings and wonky mechanics screwed over my team. What could I have done better? Think. And lose the overconfidence that I can carry as [[Riven]] from the jungle. I third picked [[Riven]] with the mindset that their second pick [[Zac]] was the jungler. But they obviously got me as they last picked [[Jarvan IV]], and so I paid the price. Not much else I can say, but I should really think this through more. --------- [center][u][b]GAME #10[/b][/u] [img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/rankedcait_zps5809cbbe.png][/center] I somehow wound up as the ADC, and I decided to pick [[Caitlyn]] as they had a [[Lulu]] and a [[Twitch]]. [[Karma]] didn't really do much, but the star of this game was [[Tryndamere]]. All hail [[Tryndamere]]. What could I have done better? Have more experience against [[Twitch]]. He caught me off-guard a few times when he would randomly pop up out of the brush or in front of me and chunk off a good portion of my health. Thankfully [[Soraka]] was kind enough to grab a [[Vision Ward]] here and there, so we were able to thwart his ambushes next time. -------- [center][b][u]GAME #11[/u][/b] [img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/immacarrynao_zps42b0c7dd.png][/center] Is it just me, or is [[Tristana]] FOTM or something? Did I miss an event where she became popular again? That, and when did Bronze ELO ranked matches become farm fests? On a different note, this actually was pretty one-sided. Despite the even kill scores, we had about 6 of their turrets down, and although they got most of the dragons, our team was also very well farmed. At least, I think for our current ELO. And through that, we were able to snowball really hard. And this was obvious as they were really scared during the several Mexican Stand-offs. They couldn't touch me, and I was able to deal so much damage when I finally joined the team fights and they just dropped. What else could I have done better? Don't get overconfident and don't try to solo that inhibitor turret. If I didn't die there, I would have had at least 375 farm :<[/quote]

[quote=Ahruu][quote=Viola Orpheus] [center][b][u]GAME #6[/u][/b][/center] [spoiler][img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/game6_zpsa7e5fd70.png][/spoiler] blala lots of text [/quote] That annie build gives me herpes' And no flash on Ashe? wat is dis[/quote]

[quote=Viola Orpheus][quote=Ahruu] That annie build gives me herpes' And no flash on Ashe? wat is dis [/quote] As I mentioned in the original post, that [[Annie]] was pretty much a troll pick when his [[Darius]] got banned. He clearly didn't know how to play her, or even how to play mid. Bronze ELO pretty much.[/quote]

[quote=Viola Orpheus][center][u][b]GAME #12[/b][/u] [img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/mehzyra_zpsf81207ad.png][/center] Bans: [[Amumu]], [[Shen]], [[Malphite]], [[Shaco]], [[Karthus]], [[Hecarim]] We were doing really well early on. Well, at least me and [[Draven]]. I was 2/1/6, and he was 7/2/1. Bot lane got destroyed, but the game had other plans for us. Well, seeing as we only had one tank while they had three, and [[Pantheon]] jungle scales horribly, we couldn't really do much. We couldn't really try to end it early because only bottom lane was winning. What could I have done better? I'll be honest, me and [[Draven]] were doing fine. Maybe a little better ward coverage that could have prevented an ace for them because of the fog of war. -------- [center][u][b]GAME #13[/b][/u] [img=http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll163/SMS1996_SYFU/mehshen_zps23b98715.png][/center] Bans: [[Amumu]], [[Evelynn]], [[Malphite]], [[Kha'Zix]], [[Karthus]], [[Shaco]](?) Looks like I've really lost my touch with jungling. Things were even for a good bit, but [[Hecarim]] caught me off guard while recalling and that pretty much snowballed out of control. But then again, [[Miss Fortune]] didn't know what she was doing, and neither did [[Sona]]. [[Ziggs]] was doing alright top, and [[Ryze]] was back and forth with [[Ahri]]. We were able to slightly come back later on when they got overconfident as hell and tried to fight without [[Hecarim]] and we got several towers because of it. But it's a fed as hell [[Hecarim]], and a pretty fed [[Caitlyn]]. So yeah. What could have I done better? Relearn the jungle. Relearn how to gank, when to gank, when to get buffs, when to invade, when to join fights, when to counter gank, and so on.[/quote]

[quote=Zelrack]To be honest, Shen isn't the best jungler right now. If you lost your touch with jungling as you're saying, you're probably better off with someone like Hecarim, Nautilus, J4 or even Volibear. They are strong pick, and it's much harder to mess up with them.[/quote]