Wayne3100's Quest for Platinum (Season 3)

[quote=Mowen]k good, thanks :3[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 12[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][url=http://i.imgur.com/7Yr5z.jpg][img=http://i.imgur.com/7Yr5z.jpg height=500][/url][/center] [columns] [center][color=red]Bans[/color][/center] [indent][indent] [[Shen]] [[Blitzcrank]] [[Ezreal]] [[Malphite]] [[Lee Sin]] [[Kha'Zix]] [/indent][/indent] [nextcol] [indent] [center][color=red]Masteries[/color][/center] [center][url=http://www.finalesfunkeln.com/s3/#UlUMsGvTvUaTvEd]21-9-0[/url][/center] [indent] [nextcol] [center][color=red]Runes[/color][/center] [center][[Greater Mark of Armor Penetration]] x7 [[Greater Mark of Critical Chance]] x2 [[Greater Seal of Armor]] x9 [[Greater Glyph of Magic Resist]] x9 [[Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage]] x3[/center] [indent] [indent] [/columns] Great example of random shit that happens in solo queue, this one. We were expecting something like [[Nidalee]] - [[Talon]] bot, it ended up being [[Irelia]] - [[Fizz]]. Either way, we were fine early, I was way ahead of [[Irelia]] in terms of cs and eventually actually sniped her with a [[Piltover Peacemaker]] under her tower, but after that the two of them would just jump on [[Sona]] at every opportunity. Of course, this is annoying, but can be prevented by not pushing the lane (staying near the tower so they can't jump on you without diving) and building tanky early to survive and reach late game, in which our team should be stronger. Instead, [[Sona]] built [[Philosopher's Stone]] first and pretty much got killed every time she stepped into lane (especially since the wave was always pushed their way and she'd move way out of tower range). They also killed me several times when I was 1v2, because there's not much you can do when the enemy bot lane can just dive you and get away with it easily. All help that our team tried giving us came way too late and [[Riven]] also lost mid pretty hard in the end due to [[Amumu]] ganks. Can't believe I lost 38 elo over this, really depressing. [b][color=red]ELO:[/color][/b] 1447[/quote]

[quote=Jovy]ow that sona score :c[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]lol no, Wayne. I wish you 10000x more luck than me, because the games I have lost have made me rage so hard, no one deserves my luck :P Looks like you guys could really have won that last game due to their weird team comp, though :/ Edit: Though I have to say your build is rather odd. I guess you were trying to get bulky, but I dunno.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]Yep, that was the idea. I figured stalling damage for some tankiness would help me survive their superior mid game phase and prevent them from being able to snowball, which is all I would need to ensure we win late game (provided I get protected by my team and kite correctly ofc). [[Frozen Mallet]] would've also helped me kiting since they had a lot of gap closers. But yeah, not to be.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 13[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][url=http://i.imgur.com/7vxit.jpg][img=http://i.imgur.com/7vxit.jpg height=500][/url][/center] [columns] [center][color=red]Bans[/color][/center] [indent][indent] [[Caitlyn]] [[Graves]] [[Amumu]] [[Lee Sin]] [[Evelynn]] [[Darius]] [/indent][/indent] [nextcol] [indent] [center][color=red]Masteries[/color][/center] [center][url=http://www.finalesfunkeln.com/s3/#7bK7vlsUvdPgvvE]21-0-9[/url][/center] [indent] [nextcol] [center][color=red]Runes[/color][/center] [center][[Greater Mark of Magic Penetration]] x9 [[Greater Seal of Armor]] x9 [[Greater Glyph of Magic Resist]] x9 [[Greater Quintessence of Ability Power]] x3[/center] [indent] [indent] [/columns] And just like that I lose 80 elo in two games, damn :c I played [[Malphite]] mid this time and did well against [[Kha'Zix]] because my flask + health/mana pots start allowed me to poke a lot while he started [[Boots of Speed]] + 3 [[Health Potion]]s and couldn't keep up. Unfortunately top lost pretty hard though. [[Shen]] pinged [[Udyr]] to come help him because the enemy jungler was top, but [[Udyr]] instead tried ganking mid while I was low on mana and [[Shen]] eventually died to [[Olaf]] & [[Trundle]], who both escaped with incredibly low health as [[Udyr]] wasted his [[Flash]] trying to catch up. Bot was doing well in lane too, though overconfidence eventually caused them to die unnecessarily a couple of times. I had a 3-0/4-0 score going into teamfights, but their teamplay was way better and their [[Blitzcrank]] landed some really nice hooks. Meanwhile our [[Ezreal]] was just getting destroyed by their [[Olaf]] and in one of the fights I missed my ult on [[Vayne]] because of [[Tumble]]. I was also the only one to jump into their team in most fights, which is one of the reasons I died so much. I feel my play in the teamfighting phase was pretty bad, I should've really had more of an impact. I have to say though, although I played mediocre this game, the -42 still hurts :( [b][color=red]ELO:[/color][/b] 1405[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 14[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][url=http://i.imgur.com/Zr1Pm.png][img=http://i.imgur.com/Zr1Pm.png][/url][/center] [center](client fail so I didn't get score screen)[/center] [columns] [center][color=red]Bans[/color][/center] [indent][indent] [[Lee Sin]] [[Malphite]] [[Shen]] [[Blitzcrank]] [[Amumu]] [[Darius]] [/indent][/indent] [nextcol] [indent] [center][color=red]Masteries[/color][/center] [center][url=http://www.finalesfunkeln.com/s3/#UlUMsGvTvUaTvEd]21-9-0[/url][/center] [indent] [nextcol] [center][color=red]Runes[/color][/center] [center][[Greater Mark of Armor Penetration]] x7 [[Greater Mark of Critical Chance]] x2 [[Greater Seal of Armor]] x9 [[Greater Glyph of Magic Resist]] x9 [[Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage]] x3[/center] [indent] [indent] [/columns] I think we can officially call this a losing spree by now. I picked [[Caitlyn]] vs [[Sivir]] because the difference in range allows Cait to poke well, but the [[Taric]] that I was laning with showed no presence after First Blood went to [[Sivir]] early on: our jungle [[Evelynn]] got blue buff and ran bot straight away,[[Taric]] stunned [[Lulu]], but then he [[Exhaust]]ed her as well and as she [[Flash]]ed away, [[Sivir]] kept her cool and simply killed [[Evelynn]] before [[Flash]]ing out herself. Well played by her, a lot of players would've chickened out, but she saw the opportunity to get a kill. After that - as I said - [[Taric]] played really passively and [[Sivir]] and [[Lulu]] pushed and poked as much as they could, which is why I decided to go for [[the Bloodthirster]] first. Despite them playing aggressively, I managed to outfarm the [[Sivir]] by roughly 25 cs after 12 minutes (that's always the point in the game at which I check my cs lol), so I figured things would be k if we just wouldn't die anymore. Unfortunately, however, it turned out [[Rumble]] was feeding [[Master Yi]] mid and we got dunked like first class scrubs. [[Cho'gath]] was doing well and eventually lane-swapped with [[Rumble]], but overall we were simply too far behind with both [[Evelynn]] and [[Rumble]] heavily underfed and there was no way back into it. Although the score doesn't reflect it, I think I played well considering how little support I got from [[Taric]]. Dropped down below 1400 though, so guess I need to change that on the first page :c [b][color=red]ELO:[/color][/b] 1370[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]Ouch... :/ Are you finding those Marks of Crit Chance are giving you more crits?[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]The first time I tried them on [[Caitlyn]] I actually got a lot of crits on the enemy [[Vayne]] & [[Taric]] (I believe that was in Game 4, though it could've also been a normal, not sure), but after trying it some more I realised that was a case of some pretty good luck. I still feel the marks are pretty good on champs with long range who poke a lot though. As for other carries I've tried it on ([[Ezreal]], [[Graves]], [[Sivir]]), it didn't seem to benefit them greatly, though it has to be said a lot of their damage on enemies comes from abilities so that's probably why. I'd still crit on minions every now and then which is cool, but not really gamebreaking :P So yeah, I think I'm gonna keep running them on [[Caitlyn]] and possibly [[Ashe]], but on others I might drop them.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 15[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8935/game15l.png height=500][/center] [columns] [center][color=red]Bans[/color][/center] [indent][indent] [[Kha'Zix]] [[Katarina]] [[Evelynn]] [[Malphite]] [[Shen]] [[Amumu]] [/indent][/indent] [nextcol] [indent] [center][color=red]Masteries[/color][/center] [center][url=http://www.finalesfunkeln.com/s3/#7sUq7nMa8kATvd]9-21-0[/url][/center] [indent] [nextcol] [center][color=red]Runes[/color][/center] [center][[Greater Mark of Attack Damage]] x9 [[Greater Seal of Armor]] x9 [[Greater Glyph of Magic Resist]] x9 [[Greater Quintessence of Health Regeneration]] x3[/center] [indent] [indent] [/columns] The losing spree has ended. My cs this game was atrocious, I had some pretty bad fps drops in teamfights and I missed out on multiple kills because I threw my axe too far / at the wrong angle and - in doing so - made myself unable to pick it up and reset the cooldown, but we won. As for a short summary: our mid got countered after firstpicking [[Ryze]] but somehow did well, bot lost early on and [[Varus]] never really got back into it and in top lane I got First Blood on [[Lee Sin]] pretty early (surviving with very low HP) after which I completely controlled the lane. The fact that I still missed tons of cs is because I was too busy trying to get more kills. Completely wrong mindset, but I guess I just wanted the win quite badly. Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed, [[Jax]] did a pretty decent job at jungling (their [[Xin Zhao]] started well too but ragequit during the mid game because [[Lee Sin]] was "retarded" - his words, not mine). [b][color=red]ELO:[/color][/b] 1409[/quote]